Background Italy was the first western country to experience a large Coronavirus Disease
2019 (COVID-19) outbreak and the province of Bergamo experienced one of the deadliest …

The massive emergence of COVID-19 cases in the first phase of pandemic within an
extremely short period of time suggest that an undetected earlier circulation of SARS-CoV-2 …

We report 42% Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
antibodies' seroprevalence in one province of Northern Italy and its effect on the second …

Italy is currently one of the countries seriously affected by the COVID‑19 pandemic. As per
10 April 2020, 147,577 people were found positive in a total of 906,864 tests performed and …

Lombardy is the Italian region most affected by COVID-19. We tested the presence of
plasma anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in 3985 employees across 7 healthcare facilities in …

Lombardy is one of the regions in Italy most affected by COVID-19. We assessed the
diffusion of the virus via testing plasma anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in 3985 employees …

SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic betacoronavirus associated with worldwide transmission of
COVID-19 disease. By the beginning of March, WHO reported about 113,820,000 confirmed …

On December 31, 2019, an outbreak of lower respiratory infections was documented in
Wuhan caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

The fast spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global threat hitting
the worldwide fragile health care system. In Italy, there is a continued COVID-19 growth of …

The virus was identified as a betacoronavirus related to severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and thus was named SARS-CoV-2 (Coronaviridae Study Group of …